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  r85554 | r.david.murray | 2010-10-15 19:12:57 -0400 (Fri, 15 Oct 2010) | 4 lines

  #9862: On AIX PIPE_BUF is broken.  Make it 512.

  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
+  its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
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 - Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
   dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.